1. Man is a spirit clothed with a
body.(406) Inwardly regarded, the bodies
of men are nothing but forms of their minds outwardly organized to carry
out the behests of the soul....(407) The
material body invests the spirit or the spiritual body.(408)

2.The body is the material substance
everywhere annexed to the spirit, adapting it to the world of nature in
which man at first lives.(409) It is an instrument
or material organ.(410) It is a covering
woven from the things of the natural world.(411)
It is a covering, organ, or instrument.(412)
It is an external through which the mind or spirit feels and acts in its
world.(413)

3.The office of the body. The
body never lives or thinks, but serves man for living on earth.(414)
The material body is an accessory for the sake of procreations,(415)
and for the formation of the inward man or spirit.(416)
It is for uses in the world.(417)A change of organization of the mind is only
possible in the material body.(418)p.
93

4.Care of the body. "Man should
take every care of his body, to nourish it, to clothe it, to let it enjoy
the delights of the world; but all these things not for the sake of the
body, but in order that the soul in a sound body may act correspondently
and rightly, and may have the body as an organ perfectly obedient to it...."
(419)

5. As to the body, man is a microcosm,
or little world.(420) It is composed of the
most arcane things of nature.(421) Each thing
in the body has within it an idea of the universe.(422)

6. The body contains "infinite" varieties,
yet is maintained in unity.(423) Despite
manifold constituents, man feels the human form as a one.(424)
There must be no part lacking for man to be a man.(425)

7. Everything in the body contributes
to use.(426) Use cannot be separated
from organic things.(427)p. 94

8.It is not the body which lives, senses, or thinks.(428)
The sensitive power which appears in the body is properly of the spirit,
and is of the body only through influx.(429)
Other spirits are not permitted to inflow into the solid tissues of the
body, but there is an influx of the spheres of evil spirits into the unclean
things belonging to diseases.(430) The body acts from the soul, not the soul through
the body.(431)

9. All things of the body correspond
to, and represent, the things of the mind (mens) and the animus.(432) The body is mere obedience.(433)

10. The body is ruled by general influx.
Bodily things are exempt from the influx of particular spirits and angels,
and are ruled by means of a general influx.(434) Speech follows from thought and action from will;
and this flows from order, thus by means of general influx.(435) The influx of God into the body (which is from material
substances) is received mediately by the natural world.(436) If man knew the interior operations of the body
he would pervert them.(437)p.
95

11. The body blunts and absorbs
the sensations of the mind.(438) The body
is only as it were a covering or shell which is dissolves for man truly
to live.(439) The body is not receptive of the Divine, wherefore
it must die.(440)

12. Death comes to the body when
it is in such a state that it cannot act in unison with the spirit. (441) The body is mortal except for the purer things of
nature which are retained.(442) Man does not rise again as to his material body
nor does he ever resume it. (A contrast with the Lord's resurrection.)(443)

13. For a discussion of the spiritual body,
see Part Four, section on "The Spiritual Organic".
Man can be judged only in the spiritual body. (444)p.
96